Political Quotes

“I think we can make a case on the morality of it in the social-political sense, but I must confess to you, Mr. Speaker, and do so quite freely, that the gentlewoman from Hawaii [Mrs. Mink] and myself are among the few people that have actually seen the results of a hydrogen bomb test, because we saw the results of the Johnson Island test that was made by our country. That is where I made my first resolve. This is not an issue that I came to this evening, Mr. Speaker, because I have been recently converted. I saw with my own eyes what happened when we exploded a relatively minor hydrogen device 900 miles away from Hawaii, and the sky lit up. It was and remains the most awesome physical sight, the most--I have chills, Mr. Speaker. As I speak with you right now, my body is suffused with a chill, because it is etched in my mind's eye and will be for the rest of my life what that test looked like.”